Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

even until I am old and advanced in years. O God, forsake me not; until I shall have declared thine arm to all the generation that is to come:

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee from thence; therefore I charge thee to do this thing.

how he withstood thee in the way, and harassed thy rear, even those that were weary behind thee, and thou didst hunger and wast weary; and he did not fear God.

And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm-tree; I shall live a long while.

And the Lord has chosen thee this day that thou shouldest be to him a peculiar people, as he said, to keep his commands;

Cursed is he that makes the blind to wander in the way: and all the people shall say, So be it.

Cursed shall be the offspring of thy body, and the fruits of thy land, the herds of thine oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep.

And his house is gone like moths, and like a spider's web.

Lest there be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart has turned aside from the Lord your God, having gone to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be in you a root springing up with gall and bitterness.

I declare to you this day, that ye shall utterly perish, and ye shall by no means live long upon the land, into which ye go over Jordan to inherit it.

And I will surely turn away my face from them in that day, because of all their evil doings which they have done, because they turned aside after strange gods.

But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go on and shine, until the day be fully come.

Thou hast forsaken God that begot thee, and forgotten God who feeds thee.

and delivered them out of all their afflictions.

And to Zabulon he said, Rejoice, Zabulon, in thy going out, and Issachar in his tents.

And Joseph answered and said to him, This is the interpretation of it; The three baskets are three days.

And it came to pass, when his master heard all the words of his wife, that she spoke to him, saying, Thus did thy servant to me, that he was very angry.

And the seven ill-favoured and thin cows ate up the seven first good and choice cows.

And Joseph gave orders to fill their vessels with corn, and to return their money to each into his sack, and to give them provision for the way; and it was so done to them.

And the men, when they perceived that they were brought into the house of Joseph, said, We are brought in because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first; even in order to inform against us, and lay it to our charge; to take us for servants, and our asses.

And Judas drew near him, and said, I pray, Sir, let thy servant speak a word before thee, and be not angry with thy servant, for thou art next to Pharao.

And whosoever shall inflict a blemish on his neighbour, as he has done to him, so shall it be done to himself in return;

And now write the words of this song, and teach it to the children of Israel, and ye shall put it into their mouth, that this song may witness for me among the children of Israel to their face.

Ye shall not eat one day, nor two, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days;

And the land shall yield her increase, and ye shall eat to fullness, and shall dwell securely in it.

And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Symeon, was Salamiel son of Surisadai.

But the ways of the ungodly are dark; they know not how they stumble.

And the Lord said to Moses in Madiam, Go, depart into Egypt, for all that sought thy life are dead.

since thy servant has found mercy before thee, and thou hast magnified thy righteousness, in what thou doest towards me that my soul may live, but I shall not be able to escape to the mountain, lest perhaps the calamity overtake me and I die.

And it shall be, whenever the cloud overshadows the tabernacle a number of days, they shall encamp by the word of the Lord, and shall remove by the command of the Lord.

But I know that Pharao king of Egypt will not let you go, save with a mighty hand;

And the Lord saw, and was jealous; and was provoked by the anger of his sons and daughters,

And I gave the Levites presented as a gift to Aaron and his sons out of the midst of the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of witness, and to make atonement for the children of Israel: thus there shall be none among the sons of Israel to draw nigh to the holy things.

And he would not, but said, I know it, son, I know it; he also shall be a people, and he shall be exalted, but his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

And it came to pass after these things, that it was reported to Abraam, saying, Behold, Melcha herself too has born sons to Nachor thy brother,

and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the moon and the stars, and all the heavenly bodies, thou shouldest go astray and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God has distributed to all the nations under heaven.

They shall utterly destroy the nations, and ye shall call men there, and there offer the sacrifice of righteousness; for the wealth of the sea shall suckle thee, and so shall the marts of them that dwell by the sea-coast.

And I will break down the haughtiness of your pride; and I will make your heaven iron, and your earth as it were brass.

And God did well to the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very strong.

And the water prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and covered all the high mountains which were under heaven.

The Lord is near to them that are of a contrite heart; and will save the lowly in spirit.

And they said, An Egyptian delivered us from the shepherds, and drew water for us and watered our sheep.

Only your wives and your children and your cattle (I know that ye have much cattle), let them dwell in your cities which I have given you;

And the sons of Lotan Chorrhi and Haeman; and the sister of Lotan, Thamna.

And Manoe took a kid of the goats and its meat-offering, and offered it on the rock to the Lord; and the angel wrought a distinct work, and Manoe and his wife were looking on.

And God said, I will pass by before thee with my glory, and I will call by my name, the Lord, before thee; and I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and will have pity on whom I will have pity.

The males are mine, everything that opens the womb; every first-born of oxen, and every first-born of sheep.

if thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments, all that I charge thee this day, to do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord thy God.

Every one that lies with a beast ye shall surely put to death.

And thou shalt take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

And all the furniture and all the instruments and the pins of the court shall be of brass.

And again, he chastens him with sickness on his bed, and the multitude of his bones is benumbed.

and ye shall draw nigh to the children of Amman: do not quarrel with them, nor wage war with them; for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Amman for an inheritance, because I have given it to the children of Lot for an inheritance.

All winged animals that creep are unclean to you; ye shall not eat of them.

And I was greatly terrified because of the wrath and anger, because the Lord was provoked with you utterly to destroy you; yet the Lord hearkened to me at this time also.

to chase all thine enemies from before thy face, as the Lord said.

And Adam called the name of his wife Life, because she was the mother of all living.

And Laban said to him, better that I should give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man; dwell with me.

And he shall take away all the fat from it, and shall offer it up on the altar.

And all the wild beasts and all the cattle and every bird, and every reptile creeping upon the earth after their kind, came forth out of the ark.

And we departed from Choreb, and went through all that great wilderness and terrible, which ye saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite, as the Lord our God charged us, and we came as far as Cades Barne.

And he called the name of that place, the House of God; and the name of the city before was Ulam-luz.

And having approached the man who was over the house of Joseph, they spoke to him in the porch of the house,

The avenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: whensoever he shall meet him he shall slay him.

For he has surely been guilty of transgression before the Lord.

The priest that offers it shall eat it: in a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of witness.

if the man arise and walk abroad on his staff, he that smote him shall be clear; only he shall pay for his loss of time, and for his healing.

These three are the sons of Noe, of these were men scattered over all the earth.

And these are the names of the men; of the tribe of Juda Chaleb the son of Jephonne.

And whatsoever flesh shall have touched any unclean thing, it shall not be eaten, it shall be consumed with fire; every one that is clean shall eat the flesh.

And thou shalt make bars of incorruptible wood; five to one post on one side of the tabernacle,

and Jared lived after his begetting Enoch, eight hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.

Every first-born that shall be born among thy kine and thy sheep, thou shalt sanctify the males to the Lord thy God; thou shalt not work with thy first-born calf, and thou shalt not shear the first-born of thy sheep.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

and said to Moses, Speak thou to us, and let not God speak to us, lest we die.

And all the silver, or gold, or brass, or iron, shall be holy to the Lord; it shall be carried into the treasury of the Lord.

they shall not wrest judgment, nor favour persons, nor receive a gift; for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

And God was with the child, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

And Moses went down to the people, and spoke to them.

And they departed from Rathama, and encamped in Remmon Phares.

And the people went up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month; and the children of Israel encamped in Galgala in the region eastward from Jericho.

and the sons of Caath according to their families; Amram and Issaar, Chebron and Oziel:

And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall go outside the door of thy house, his guilt shall be upon him, and we shall be quit of this thine oath; and we will be responsible for all that shall be found with thee in thy house.

and it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord thy God, and to keep all these commandments, and to observe these ordinances:

Now then hearken to me, and I will advise thee, and God shall be with thee: be thou to the people in the things pertaining to God, and thou shalt bring their matters to God.

And whatever man shall not hearken to whatsoever words that prophet shall speak in my name, I will take vengeance on him.

His forces that were numbered, are forty thousand and five hundred.

And we will not any longer inherit with them from the other side of Jordan and onwards, because we have our full inheritance on the side beyond Jordan eastward.

And each said to his brother, Behold, that dreamer comes.

And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole her father's images.

And if he that sanctified the field would redeem it, he shall add to its value the fifth part of the money, and it shall be his.

And the princes said to all the congregation: We have sworn to them by the Lord God of Israel, and now we shall not be able to touch them.

And he divided the ram by its limbs, and Moses offered the head, and the limbs, and the fat; and he washed the belly and the feet with water.

And there were sons born to Joseph in the land of Egypt, whom Aseneth, the daughter of Petephres, priest of Heliopolis, bore to him, Manasses and Ephraim. And there were sons born to Manasses, which the Syrian concubine bore to him, Machir. And Machir begot Galaad. And the sons of Ephraim, the brother of Manasses; Sutalaam, and Taam. And the sons of Sutalaam; Edom.

And the priest shall adjure her, and shall say to the woman, If no one has lain with thee, and if thou hast not transgressed so as to be polluted, being under the power of thy husband, be free from this water of the conviction that causes the curse.

And ye shall love the stranger; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

And the boundaries of the Chananites were from Sidon till one comes to Gerara and Gaza, till one comes to Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, as far as Dasa.

then shall ye do to him as he wickedly devised to do against his brother, and thou shalt remove the evil from yourselves.

And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

But they did not hearken to Moses, but some left of it till the morning; and it bred worms and stank: and Moses was irritated with them.